Posted on 12/11/2024 1:37:28 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
Hannah Kobayashi, the Maui woman deemed "voluntarily missing" by the Los Angeles Police Department after she vanished last month and crossed the border to Mexico, has been found safe, her family announced Wednesday.
"We are incredibly relieved and grateful that Hannah has been found safe," Kobayashi's family said in a statement. "This past month has been an unimaginable ordeal for our family, and we kindly ask for privacy as we take the time to heal and process everything we have been through."
Kobayashi disappeared after missing her Nov. 8 connecting flight to New York at the Los Angeles International Airport, according to her family. She was reported missing after her family said she sent them cryptic text messages suggesting that her identity and money had been stolen.
Kobayashi's disappearance spawned a weeks-long search that culminated in the LAPD classifying her as a “voluntary missing person," saying there was no evidence of criminal activity and video showed her crossing the border into Mexico. LAPD also said they didn't believe Kobayashi was a victim of trafficking or foul play.
On Nov. 12, the 30-year-old was seen using her passport and cash to get a bus ticket to Union Station in order to reach the San Ysidro border crossing, where she crossed into Mexico through a tunnel, officials said.
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Poor girl. She really was in a no-win situation. Unless she knew Captain Kirk!
Why did her weirdo dad commit suicide at LAX.
Felt guilty about something?
The whole family are weirdos..they made over 50 grand searching for her when she was never missing..they should be forced to give the money back to reimburse the city for all the manpower they used in searching for her
Japanese men will kill themselves if they have a great failing in their lives. It’s all part of the Bushido code that many of them still live under.
I guess she avoided the Kobiyashi Maru Scenario.
Dang it, that’s what I get for going away for a few minutes.
A Los Angeles magazine article published on Dec. 4 citing sources reported that Hannah’s mom may have discovered evidence that Hannah may have been involved in a green card marriage for money and the “secret new husband” may have also been on the flight to Los Angeles.
Hannah’s sister Sydni told CNN that Hannah and her then boyfriend had booked the flights to New York together and also made plans to visit an aunt in upstate New York. They broke up after booking the flights and agreed to go ahead with the trip separately.
The ex-boyfriend, who has not been publicly named, successfully boarded the Nov. 8 connecting flight to New York and has been “extremely responsive and cooperative with the investigation,” according to Hannah’s family.
Missing the flight to New Yerk was a good call on her part.
I would miss it as well.
Came here to see if this was posted. Guessing it may be because of what he did find rather that didn’t?
Yeah
She’s attractive enough to make it in this world(those things count). Gotta be mental illness.
Maybe. Or maybe everyone telling him his daughter had vanished and was presumed dead... and his fruitless search pushed him over the edge.
Is she another Gasoline-powered Power Lesbian?
Or electric ⚡💡?
Whatever idiotic scam she was involved in, she wound up putting her dad in his grave. Hope the money was worth it. And she will just go back to her life... no consequences for killing her father.
Well he dad killed himself during this so she better have a really good explanation...
A Japanese Soap Opera.
“Sayonara” ,she said.
The first thought in my mind was Mr. Kobayashi in ‘The Usual Suspects.’
I figured this woman was OK. But, now her father is gone forever.
I do not understand why an adult can’t choose to be missing.
we always have blow ups on our neighborhood FB page regarding “missing” adults. I thought you could just go and do as you please once you are grown.
They can. The problem is not telling anybody beforehand.
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